With the less than stellar reception of Rebel Moon by audiences and critics alike, Rebel Moon star Ed Skrein is doing his best to hype up the Zack Snyder director’s cut of Rebel Moon: Part One: A Child Of Fire by alluding to “hardcore” tentacle porn cuts.
Ed Skrein, who portrays Atticus Noble in the movie, said in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter: “I was thinking about that scene as it went on, and I suppose Zack could see that I was thinking about it. I kept coming up with these suggestions, like, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if I stood up and I had some weird alien vibrator or a fucking sex toy for aliens?’ And not something like a dildo, just something ambiguous.
There’s a lot of ambiguity to that scene, and that’s what works about it. And in the extended cut, it’s obviously a lot more extended and slightly less ambiguous perhaps, but nonetheless, there are ambiguous things in it. So I thought that would be really cool, and Zack loved the idea and came up with a couple of his own ideas. The prop department then went off and did some stuff, and we had a good old giggle while we were shooting our other scenes and talking about what it could be.
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Zack Snyder always intended Rebel Moon to be a more “grown-up” version of Star Wars, and Rebel Moon was always going to be his vehicle to push the boundaries for what is acceptable in commercial movies.
Ed Skrein confirmed as much during the interview when asked about space hookahs, tentacle porn, and astral planes: “We’ve seen Saw and Hostile, and all those kinds of movies push violence quite far for a commercial entity, and of course, we’ve seen what we did with Deadpool. That film pushed the superhero genre to another place, but there was still comedy involved in that. But this shit is not funny. This is fucked-up empires in space and evil human nature evolving and playing out on an intergalactic level. It’s hardcore.”
If Zack Snyder wanted to push the boundaries of degeneracy in mainstream Hollywood, then showing tentacle porn in Rebel Moon is a sure-fire way to go about it.
And there won’t be a reprieve for Rebel Moon: Part Two – The Scargiver. Co-Writer Kurt Johnstad confirmed that there will be an extended R-rated version for the second part, too.
Do you think Ed Skrein ‘s tentacle porn scenes in the Snyder cuts will save Rebel Moon?
Nice try, but you’ll never beat Japan at their own game.